From caa7f42e8e75e273ab3f52ada30aed4e06a817d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andreas Rumpf <rumpf_a@web.de>
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 01:35:42 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fixes #4340

---
 lib/system/deepcopy.nim | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/system/deepcopy.nim b/lib/system/deepcopy.nim
index 6e512c9b17..5445a067c3 100644
--- a/lib/system/deepcopy.nim
+++ b/lib/system/deepcopy.nim
@@ -124,7 +124,9 @@ proc genericDeepCopyAux(dest, src: pointer, mt: PNimType) =
     copyMem(dest, src, mt.size)
 
 proc genericDeepCopy(dest, src: pointer, mt: PNimType) {.compilerProc.} =
+  GC_disable()
   genericDeepCopyAux(dest, src, mt)
+  GC_enable()
 
 proc genericSeqDeepCopy(dest, src: pointer, mt: PNimType) {.compilerProc.} =
   # also invoked for 'string'